A review based on realistic mode gameplay

I can easily close my eyes on the fiddly building and landscape mechanics but the folk's needs are unfufillable and playing with this is insufferable.

Hear me out: this game is awesome and i want to love it, but i can't express how frustrating it is to:
- see your city just die out "because of pollution" because i didn't put the damn boiler house few km's away from the city (then how tf do people in mumbai survive huh???).
- watch people telling that they are suffering a mfn famine just because there was a small line to the shop
- watch civs fuffiling their "15min visit to the doctor" few ingame hours instead
- watch civs being ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and not wanting to go more than 400m to fufill at least their basic survival needs

People in realistic mode are WAY too fragile. A 90yr old grandma will do a lot better than them.

And i LOVE realistic mode but it hurts to play with having civs die out so easily.

Not having game on realistic is just uninteresting for me.

Will delete this review once the problems are gone.

Too much effort for the amount of actual game here. Nothing is easy, the game automates nothing. Everything is hard. But not fun, just awkward and frustrating. The detail here is impressive, but it doesn't translate to much in terms of game - just an unbelievable amount of micro management, which often breaks down when trains collide and workers can't find your work locations. Very average game with extremely impressive detail.

This game is like Dark Souls, but instead of struggling to fight humongous bosses, you struggle to fight the game mechanics.